An Inviting Works Space at Home: Part 2

I am lucky enough to have my own dressing room.  It's a room where I keep my clothes, make up, and other personal things. My dressing room is also my office, and doubles as a guest room. It was the room I wanted to spend as little time in as possible, not only was it a mess with my clothes, jewelry, accessories and books; it is painted a barf beige, chilly in temperature, dark due to black out curtains, and there is no bedding that fits the daybed. Not a room I consider inviting.

Then I realized that everything I hated about this room could be changed!

My goal is to make this room -a place where I must work, into somewhere I want to spend time.

Step 1: Illuminate the room by replacing black out curtains with bright red and white curtains. (An Inviting Work Space At Home: Part 1, posted 11/8/12)

Step 2: The Little Things; hats and jewelry

Everyone has heard the expression that it is the little things that make the big differences. This statement couldn’t be truer when it came to the pile of hats and the pile of jewelry in my room. Things in piles, even if the piles are small look worthless and inaccessible.

Before; pile o' hats

I own about 10 hats, that I love wearing for the fashion and function. I had a designated “spot” for my hats but it wasn’t organized and it looked trashy, like someone had thrown a pile of hats on a shelf (and that is exactly what was happening.)

All it took was a trip to Marshalls, where I found an “over the door” hat rack for $7.99. The hat rack has 6 hooks, I had to double up on a couple of hooks, besides that it is exactly what I needed; looks great, accessible and it's hanging on my way out the door.

After

Throwing things in a pile is a reoccurring solution when organizing my belongings. I found that I was storing my jewelry the same way as my hats; in a pile on a shelf.

Again, at Marshalls, I found the solution to my pile o’ jewelry problem. A jewelry tree in the shape of a dress making manikin ($7.99) for necklaces and 3 compartment jewelry box for rings and bracelets ($5.99.) These items were the perfect solution to storing my small jewelry collection; and they are cute and decorative and make it easy to see my accessory options.

After

Before: pile o' jewelry

Those little things do add up. What do you do with the little things around your house?